{"id":27783,"date":"2017-05-28T13:08:18","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T20:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=27783"},"modified":"2017-05-28T13:08:18","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T20:08:18","slug":"open-thread-5282017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/28\/open-thread-5282017\/","title":{"rendered":"Open Thread &#8211; 5\/28\/2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">I told you it was hot.&#160; Yesterday, Portland reached 92\u00b0, tying the record high for the date.&#160; Today will be a a few degrees cooler, but not much.&#160; Wendy will arrive in a few minutes to remove several layers of stink from the TomCat and help with cooking.&#160; If I start typing &#8216;Seig Heil&#8217; as I write, please bear with me until the Dulcolax kicks in.&#160; I have Republicitis.<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Wendy just left.&#160; Never has a cat needed so much scrubbing!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Jig Zone Puzzle<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Today&#8217;s took me 3:15 (average 4:33).&#160; To do it, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jigzone.com\/puzzles\/2017-05-28-CE2504A965A9\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.&#160; How did you do?<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Short Takes<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rodEjsy66s8\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheYoungTurks\/videos\" target=\"_blank\">TYT Channel<\/a>): <\/font><font color=\"#000000\">Kids Will Now Take &quot;Anti-Science&quot; Classes<\/font><\/p>\n<p>&#160;<iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/rodEjsy66s8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Republican Supply-side pseudo-Christians invented Supply-side Jesus, who, unlike the real Jesus, believes in hate, greed, and lies, but not in science. Cenk is wrong in part. Authentic Christians do not force beliefs on others. We honor their beliefs, as long as those who hold them also respect others&#8217; beliefs. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/trump-fails-to-commit-to-paris-climate-agreement-as-he-concludes-first-overseas-trip\/2017\/05\/27\/e1d3ac5c-42e3-11e7-8c25-44d09ff5a4a8_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/font>President Trump failed to commit to remaining within the Paris climate agreement during a two-day meeting with world leaders that ended here Saturday, but he tweeted that he was still considering it and would announce a final decision \u201cnext week.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a final communique, the Group of Seven industrialized countries said that the United States \u201cis not in a position to join the consensus.\u201d The other six members reaffirmed their commitment to swiftly implement the 2015 accord to limit greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p>The G-7 summit marked the last stop of Trump\u2019s first overseas trip as president.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">That is tragic, and his failure to support the climate agreement is almost as bad as the tragedy. Isn&#8217;t there a way we could have stopped him at the border? <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/nationnow\/la-na-portland-stabbing-20170527-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">LA Times<\/a>: <\/font><\/p>\n<p>A 35-year-old white supremacist with a criminal record has been arrested in connection with the stabbing deaths Friday of two men on a light-rail train in Portland, Ore., who intervened when he began to hurl anti-Muslim epithets at two women, one who was wearing a head scarf, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Jeremy Joseph Christian of North Portland was jailed early Saturday on charges of aggravated murder, attempted murder, intimidation in the second degree and felony possession of a restricted weapon. He is being held without bail, and could face additional charges, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred on the Metropolitan Area Express light-rail line \u2014 known as MAX \u2014during rush hour Friday. The two men who were killed appear to have stepped in to protect the women from racial slurs. One of the men was identified in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/asha.deliverance\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook post<\/a> by his mother as Taliesin Myrddin Namkai Meche, a recent graduate of Reed College.<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Condolences to the families.&#160; Sadly, there are Republicans even in Portland, OR. Al Orange is a greater terrorist threat than the Daesh. <strong>RESIST<\/strong>!!<\/font><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\"><strong>Cartoon<\/strong>:<\/font><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"0529Cartoon\" style=\"border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px; border-top-width: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"0529Cartoon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/0529Cartoon.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">It has been Fitzwalkerstan, in thrall to Fartfuhrer Walker, far too long!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I told you it was hot.&#160; Yesterday, Portland reached 92\u00b0, tying the record high for the date.&#160; Today will be a a few degrees cooler, but not much.&#160; Wendy will arrive in a few minutes to remove several layers of stink from the TomCat and help with cooking.&#160; If I start typing &#8216;Seig Heil&#8217; as <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/28\/open-thread-5282017\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-personal","category-politics","category-35-id","category-3-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}